“Preston makes periodic attempts to find something nice to say about him” (mentioning, for instance, his “sentimental affection for dogs”), said Robert Harris in The Sunday Times. But ...

Robert Maxwell was the embodiment of that now almost vanished species, the media mogul: the proprietor of the Mirror Group, a huge figure in political and party life in London. The press barons ...

Working Title has optioned TV rights to bestselling author John Preston’s ( “A Very English Scandal,” “The Dig“) non-fiction book “Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell.” The book ...

The Fall, by John Preston, formerly arts editor of this paper and author of several books including The Dig (recently made into a Netflix movie), conjures up in one little monosyllable the final ...

The Fall, by John Preston, formerly arts editor of this paper and author of several books including The Dig (recently made into a Netflix movie), conjures up in one little monosyllable the final ...

John Preston's gripping biography sets out to give the definitive account of Robert Maxwell's rise and fall. Underneath this apparent model of society lay an amoral and bloated wreck. Omnibus of ...